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Serena Ehrlich, director of social and evolving media for BusinessWire, talks about what news organizations might do next now that Facebook’s algorithm has all but ended the sharing of their content in users’ News Feeds. Also in this episode:

Companies are increasing the size of their communication staffs in an effort to protect their reputations

The link between reputation and market value is getting stronger

YouTube will link from conspiracy theory videos to Wikipedia articles

Fake news spreads farther on Twitter than true stories

Companies are disclosing the CEO-employee pay ratios, and for some, it’s not pretty

GE isn’t paying executive bonuses this year

Employee surveys continue to be a great way to measure employee engagement (even at Facebook)

Marketers can learn a thing or two from the students at Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School

You can find the stories from which FIR content is selected at Shel’s Link Blog.

About this week’s guest

Serena Ehrlich, Director of Social and Evolving Media, provides guidance for internal and external content creation and distribution services, ranging from PR programming to mobile marketing to social media updates. Throughout her career, Ehrlich has worked to provide guidance on investor relations, public relations and overall consumer behavior relations trends. Before rejoining Business Wire in 2013, Ehrlich designed and implemented successful local, national and international social, influencer, mobile and traditional marketing campaigns for brands including Kraft, Kohls, Avon, Mattel, Mogreet and more. A ’91 graduate of Brandeis University with a B.A. in History, Ehrlich was named one of the 2013 Top 25 Women in Mobile to Watch by Mobile Marketer.